Drug czar gives warning (Pot growers "dangerous terrorists")

Record Searchlight ^ | July 13, 2007 | Dylan Darling

[Diggity]

Yo, dude, lets go get stoned and then blow ourselves up.

John

[SubGeniusX]

Appointing imbeciles is Bush's special gift.

well of course, he's surrounding himself with people more capable than himself.....

[SubGeniusX]

IQ Range Classification
70-80 Borderline deficiency
50-69 Moron
20-49 Imbecile
below 20 Idiot

[whipitgood]

These raids will have a positive effect on the local economy here in western Colorado. Supply and demand, that sort of thing, you know...

[BlazingArizona]

Drug sales are a primary means of raising money for terrorist causes.

This might apply to opium grown in Afghanistan, but real terrorists finance their operations with Daddy's oil billions. They wouldn't rely on the flakeys and shakeys who grow weed in California closets.

[BlazingArizona]

The REAL IQ Chart:

70-80 Airline customer service rep
50-69 Head of FEMA
20-49 Economist
below 20: John P Walters

[dragnet2]

John P. Walters, President Bush's drug czar, said the people who plant and tend the gardens are terrorists who wouldn't hesitate to help other terrorists get into the country with the aim of causing mass casualties

I hope he didn't say this.

[barkeep]

In the Texas panhandle, along the Canadian River, is a huge swath of feral hemp left from the days when it was planted by the gov’t as a potential stategic material for rope. Really don’t know if any ever got used for that, but as the Zap Comiks Freak Brothers once said, “the better the rope, the worse the dope”.

In short, marijuana bred for hemp fiber is useless for getting high. You will get emphysema before you get a buzz. Still, nearly every year, a couple groups of dumb kids get busted harvesting this worthless, but still illegal plant. Every cop involved poses for pictures, “value” which would be absurd for really good pot gets quoted unquestioningly in the press, and cells which would be better used for holding illegal aliens are occupied for lengthy terms by numbskulls whose only real crime was felonious stupidity.

As for the “They got guns and will use them”, even for those who do plant good weed on public lands, they usually do this so that even if the crop is discovered, they just walk away, losing nothing more than effort and seed. It happens, but only rarely do the drug warriors catch the farmer on site. The farmers know them hills like your tongue knows your teeth. They start seeing strange vehicles carrying surveillance teams back and forth changing shifts, heck, they write that one off and sit home drinking beer and laughing at the feds crouching in the thunderstorms.

[KoRn]

"The nation's top anti-drug official said people need to overcome their "reefer blindness" and see that illicit marijuana gardens are a terrorist threat to the public's health and safety, as well as to the environment."

Dear God.....

This stupid fool is just hitting on all of the hot button buzz words. lol

[Sender]

[Sender]

I got a call from an Army guy at a base in Afghanistan recently. He told me they were all safe when the opium harvest was going on; everyone was either occupied at harvesting his own crop or gainfully employed harvesting someone else's. There would be no IEDs or ambushes, no hostilities, just hardworking farmers bringing in the sheaves.

When the opium harvest is done, many of the locals have no gainful income. That is when the Taliban and al Qaeda hire them to plant IEDs and ambush convoys. You can buy an assasin in Afghanistan for 50 bucks, and the bad guys do.

Maybe we can convert them all into growing fries for McDonald's, but somehow I doubt the profit margin is the same.

My point is that even the IED planters in Afghanistan may not be ideological terrorists, they are merely doing odd jobs for cash. They don't necessarily harbor hostility for us nor want to kill us or make us leave. They only want 50 bucks. We could probably hire them for $75 and the Taliban would have no traction. Plus, they would like to have their movies and music back. God Bless the USA.

[philman_36]

placemarker

[NCSteve]

I thought this article was from The Onion when I first read it. After re-reading it, it almost seems like something out of Orwell or Rand.

[robertpaulsen]

Gee. A Libertarian posting on a Libertarian website who opposes the government regulating drugs. What a shocker.

I wish he would also add his solution -- the legalization of all drugs -- so we can see him for the whack-job he is. But no. All we'll get from him is criticism.

[robertpaulsen]

Your solution being ... what? The legalization of all drugs, including prescription drugs?

Sure. Then all the drug traffickers will move here, grow/manufacture their drugs legally, and make a tremendous profit exporting them to countries where use remains illegal. Buy American! will have a whole new meaning, thanks to you.

So will The Ugly American. This would really increase our popularity in the world -- especially among Muslims. "Houston Heroin", "Memphis Meth", and "Kansas Coke" addicting millions of children worldwide.

But wait, robertpaulsen, the rest of the world will follow our lead and legalize all drugs, thereby taking away the profit.

You are one funny dude. Hey, if you're going to dream your Libertarian dream, dream big.

[robertpaulsen]

"Why would anyone growing drugs for a mass audience want to decimate their market with mass casualties?"

Did 9/11 "decimate" the drug market?

[robertpaulsen]

"Can’t touch it though — it’s the drug of choice of the people in power."

I often wondered who were the ones who passed the 21st amendment. Thanks for the info!

[robertpaulsen]

"We could buy the entire Afghani opium crop directly from the farmers"

And every time your child throws a temper tantrum, give him a sucker to keep still. See how that works first, then let me know if you really want to pay Afghani farmers to grow illegal drugs.

[Rodney King]

You just don’t know what you are talking about. Drug sales are a primary means of raising money for terrorist causes. In Afganistan, if we could stop the production of opium, the Taliban would dry up from lack of funds.

I think the reference was to fighting drugs within the US, not without. Besides, if drugs were legal than the terrorists would have to compete with philip morriss.. now they don't compete with anybody.

[Maceman]

I stated that I am willing to concede that a role for some type of regulation of some drugs.

But the absolute criminalization of marijuana, heroin and cocaine is much more devastating to society, and to individuals, than allowing people access to them.

You cannot seriously tell me that the War on Drugs has proven to be good social policy. You need to take your blinders off.